There’s no reason to black out the certificate number except to hide a forgery.
A genuine certificate number would belong to some other very likely living person, who might spot it and expose the fraud.
An invalid certificate number would be easily exposed by the State of Hawaii.
The birth certificate on the Obama website is a forgery.
The Rats are getting deperate!
I think you might be right about this. The birth certificate number would not be a social security number so there would be no good reason to block it out. Obama has some explaining to do here.
There’s any even more compelling reason which has been posited on one of the other threads here, which is that it was essential to cover that section of the certificate to hide the fact that there was NO number. They could not put in a fake number because it could then be checked for accuracy.